skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What we did not want were irremovable, lifetime dictators who packed the government with cronies on the take

And what they got is an irremovable Zelensky with cronies so corrupt they even stole the SUVs that GM donated to evacuate refugees and drove them to work (https://babel.ua/en/amp/news/86252-bihus-info-deputy-head-of...)

> But what people want are clear laws and predictable officials, not ones that make up crap as they go along

Ousting a president in a coup is not making things up as they go along? Or is it only bad when Trump tries it?
I just get into flow state when working in lisp, more than any other language family.

Running and writing code blended together with a connected REPL is like being jacked into the machine. Imaging how much of an improvement a connected debugger is over reading through logs. This is that much of an improvement over a connected debugger. The code is live running right in the editor all the time. More like magic than debugging.

And then macros, both anaphoric and hygenic, that let you write your own language inside the lisp itself. They should be used extremely sparingly, but when used at the right time it can literally change the language itself to better suit your need.

And then the code itself being a data structure, it all feels so connected, integrated, and unified.

I have never had as much fun as I do when working in Lisps. I haven't done it for money in a while, but maybe one day again.

Let Over Lambda and SICP are what really got me turned into a lifetime lisp lover. By the end of LoL you make a version of Forth inside of lisp! https://letoverlambda.com/
Teams doesn't even do copy paste or open Microsoft based formats in under 10 seconds (IME)... I rest my case.
China is only communist in name. It’s like a state calling themselves paradise. Call it what it is, a dictatorship.

Personal opinion: Communism is impossible (in the foreseeable future)
I use it to send photos and documents to and from my phone. These apps are cross platform, when Airdrop is not.
Flu, cold, and SARS-nCov2, affect your smell, which is a large part of what people call "taste", but not all of it.

Your ability to taste the basic tastes: salty, bitter, sour, and sweet is unaffected because it is managed by your tongue, not your nose.
Nintendo to announce new console by end of fiscal year
Computer Vision and Apache Pinot Vector Index
Unless you have data to show that your "different way" produces better results, your idea sounds exactly the same as every other idea, which is basically garbage.

Lots of people have lots of ideas on what makes a great interview question, but none of them are backed by data. LeetCode-style algo questions USED to be an indicator of intelligence as per Google's investigation, but now it's so heavily gamed that I doubt there's any signal behind it anymore.

Someone needs to spend time and effort and money and actually do random controlled tests to see if people who pass a particular type of test actually make good employees. But so far no one has done this, except Google as far as I've seen. But even now, I think there's no evidence that even algorithm questions are any indicator, given what I've seen.
Island ECN FoxPro Source Code
I had a WP site for many years. One day the company who made the custom theme I was using decided to drop support for it. I figured it was time to just switch to the built-in theme for easy of maintenance purposes. I used the 2022 (or was it 2023) theme.

The new editor was incredibly frustrating to use. I thought I must be doing something wrong but no, confirmed by reddit and youtube, it was a huge step backwards in many ways. One of the top downloaded plugins is the 'classic editor' which lets people use the old school editor.

The craziest thing to me about the fall from grace is that the new editor was likely a response to increased competition from wix, squarespace, etc. Those sites editors can almost be used by grandma. Wordpress on the other hand requires a phd in wordpress now. Were any user studies conducted?

According to google trends, Wordpress usage peaked a couple years ago and in my uninformed simpleton opinion would lay the blame at the feet of the redesign.

I'm not bitter about the situation (although I did waste a lot of time fighting the new UI to get it to do what I want) but I am disheartened because wordpress has been a pillar for the internet for so long I want it to succeed.
How did you go about roasting your own if you don’t mind me asking.
Exactly, and if you had read what I wrote (one time explicitly) it's a reply to the claim that the "accusation is ridiculous and lacking any form of sincere analysis".

Her words, direct quote: it did emphasize in the order that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right of being protected from genocide. Or do you think that genocide is a ridiculous accusation but the risk of harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide has merit? Because that would be laughable -- what is the consequence of losing your right to the protection of genocide if not genocide itself? So the case has merit and it's very far away from lacking serious analysis. Quite the opposite.
Nobody I know is furious with AI regulation. Indeed, we welcome it.
Nah, you can override the flags and still will remain working, but you have to be aware of it and figure out how to change the flags of a project properly.
Cold brew is so much more caffeinated that I've seen most shops add tons of ice to create enough drinkable volume without giving you enough caffeine to knock a horse down.
> But others also pointed to the way reading is being taught to young children in an educational environment that gets more and more test-focused all the time.

Seems like there would be an easy way to test this - do we see the same decline in other countries with different educational systems?
Finally someone can explain something in an understandable way. This guy should be an educator.
Id have to agree.

Maybe a better way to think of it is life disparity, or living disparity.

Most folks, even those in extreme poverty, are far better off today than if they were in a similar position even 200 years ago.
It is interesting because the top 5 oldest companies are Japanese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies. Their points are still valid even though the country has a different story.
Mice are the problem, not the rest of the GUI.

Keyboards are just faster once you learn them.
I disagree with some of this.

At some of my past jobs and the current one, this kind of algorithmic knowledge was important to build features that were differentiators in the market. As much as people love to pretend, not every single possible solution is in a library. Sometimes you're the one building the library.

It doesn't have to be leetcode, but candidates should at least be able to produce some code that doesn't come from the README of their favourite framework.

Also, talking for 30/45 mins can be enough, but it produces false positives when you have people coaching candidates. I've had people completely acing interviews that it felt like the perfect candidate. Well, it was rehearsed. When I asked for a fizz-buzz type question they completely messed it up.
I still don’t, honestly. I’ve never gone to the library when I wasn’t going to get some specific title. I Google stuff first.
The way I've seen it done is with one of those massive plastic commercial kitchen lidded containers, and a softball sized teabag of coffee sold by the restaurant supply company specifically for cold brewing like this. Then they put it in the walk in for a while to steep and sell it after a certain number of hours.
Indeed, that does seem quite plausible! Thanks.
Your overly abstract language has no value here.

Profit is not surplus value created by worker - that’s a 4 year olds understanding and negates all the other components of the system of which labour is only one.

We have tried “choosing” various “arrangements” (or more correctly, competing economic systems) and evidence points to capitalism being the correct approach to maximise liberty, growth and progress.
Some further context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_ECN

Island ECN creator Josh Levine was also featured in:
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Pools-Machine-Traders-Rigging/dp...
Isn't a mailing list as good at hosting a three-month-long thread as Usenet is?
> You aren't required to develop for iOS

Do you have a legal right to write software or run your own software for hardware you bought?

Because it’s very easy to take away a right by erecting aritificial barriers, just like how you could discriminate by race at work, but pretend you are doing something else,
While it's not as ubiquitous as it used to be, Matlab is still very heavily used within shops that do a lot of traditional engineering (ME, EE, Aero, etc.).

This surprises people who just write software, but consider:

- The documentation and support is superb. This alone can justify the cost for many orgs.

- Did I mention the support? MathWorks has teams of application support engineers to help you use the tool. The ability to pay to get someone on the phone can also justify the price.

- The toolkits tend to do what specific fields want, and they tend to have a decent api. In contrast, you might end up hacking together something out of scipy and 3-4 weirdly incompatible data science packages. That's fine for me, but your average ME/EE would rather just have a tool that does what they need.

- It also has SIMULINK, which can help engineers get from spec to simulation very quickly, and seems deeply embedded in certain areas (eg: it's pretty common for a job ad with control systems work to want SIMULINK experience).

Is Python gradually displacing it? Probably.

(Honestly, I wish it would happen faster. I've written one large program in Matlab, and I have absolutely no desire to write another.)
Back when I worked out of an office in an industrial park in the suburbs of Boston, a number of the younger/single folks would reverse-commute in from the city. Since it was against the prevailing flow of traffic it was a pretty easy drive for them.
Good point, bad rant.

Right now, the two real AI issues are 1) improved surveillance in a broad sense, and 2) job elimination. Both relate to what the owners of the tech want.

The political problem is that few governments are willing to effectively regulate 1) or 2).
The title of the article might lead someone to think that it's being withdrawn because of the side effect. This is not the case, as explained towards the middle of it. AstraZeneca is withdrawing its initial monovalent vaccine because it has been superseded and is no longer manufactured:

> “As multiple, variant Covid-19 vaccines have since been developed, there is a surplus of available updated vaccines. This has led to a decline in demand for Vaxzevria, which is no longer being manufactured or supplied. AstraZeneca has therefore taken the decision to initiate withdrawal of the marketing authorisations for Vaxzevria within Europe.
In 18 years I have never once actually used a Web Component. What is the point?
Anyone know if the ram multiples of the M4 are better than the M3? Example: could a base model M4 sport more than 24GB of ram?
I don’t know anyone who’s jumping up and down on the plunger or doing anything more than pressing it slowly. Have to imagine the coarseness/evenness of your grind is a 10x bigger factor in that regard
From what I hear, wealth above $50M-$100M is really only useful for status or power. Once you've hit that level you're able to buy pretty much anything material that makes life nicer: a second house, a yacht, servants, a private jet, et cetera.

People have identified the private jet as the most expensive thing a person can buy that substantially improves your life.

Beyond that point it's more of a status game than real improvement. Yes, a 200ft yacht is nicer than a 50ft yacht, but the difference is marginal. The 7th house isn't adding much.
It reminded me of Berkshire Hathaway. Very old fashioned, run by sensible people, and hold a lot of cash (and very little debt%).
Yeah, you can only make the furthest RAM chip in DIMM be so close to the CPU based on the form factor, and the other traces need to match that length. Distance is critical and edge connectors sure don't help.
$695 isn't even bad, have people seen what even an entry level espresso machine can cost?
I’m not particularly scared of a 51% attack between the devices attached to my Apple ID. If my iPhone splits inference work with my idle MacBook, Apple TV, and iPad, what’s the problem there?
I recommend you to read the book, I think that the film doesn't (can't?) do it justice. The book being written from the point of view of the narrator is crucial: the reader is put in the mind of a pedophile (we are told that he is in jail). I also suggest imagining the girl as a child, before puberty at the start of the story.

The case study of Lolita is interesting because there are two competing readings. The fact that the character is often associated to seduction and jailbait in popular culture is arguably symptomatic of a culture of blaming the victims of this kind of crimes. Obviously not all men are perverts but I sometimes wonder if those of us who aren't don't underestimate the number of those who are.
Styling components nested inside other components can still work with either slots or scoping CSS custom properties with parent selectors.

.login-form {
--button-outline-width: 2px;
}

.credit-card-form {
--button-outline-width: 2px;
}

Of course, the component needs to be authored & documented in a way that supports this.

For example, shoelace has a "Drawer" component: https://shoelace.style/components/drawer

By default the drawer component has an "X" button in the header to close it. If you want to override that, instead of trying to style the nested "X" button you can pass in your own header actions with slot="header-actions"
Hiring, like many things - including engineering - is about tradeoffs.

Is someone more knowledgeable "better"? Sure. But sometimes it's about getting a specific thing done, and if you're hiring someone to improve a web thing that uses React, maybe you don't need someone who understands compilers and the kernel and how the underlying hardware works and all that. Maybe you can spend a bit less and get someone who will do a perfectly adequate job.
Are you sure?

> The core of the controversy stems from Proton Mail providing the Spanish police with the recovery email address associated with the Proton Mail account of an individual using the pseudonym ‘Xuxo Rondinaire.’
Can it become loose then suddenly not have all pins attached properly? This is something that's unlikely to happen with SODIMM slots, but I've seen so many times when screw receptacles fail.
> We shouldn’t fear AI as a technology. We should instead worry about who owns AI and how its owners wield AI to invade privacy and erode democracy.

The entire problem with this article is that it is arguing against technological determinism without even knowing it, and so it has no argument against it. But with the seductive power of technology and the ability for it to provide short-term marginal advantages to people, and combined with the fact that humans are horribly poor at acting to stop long-term detriments and tragedy, it is far more likely that AI and advanced technology will spread even if we can see the death at the end of the tunnel.

The only way we will gain more wisdom against advanced technology is to gain more wisdom without using advanced technology, because the immense power it offers is precisely the thing that makes it even harder to acquire that wisdom, simply because the power is too seductive.

Sorry to say, but we cannot handle AI and that is abundantly clear: the short-term advantages are too great, even though it promises a horrendous future. Sort of like burning fossil fuels.
It's not strictly tied to wealth but Athens exiled people for being too powerful all the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism

Greeks used shards of pottery called ostraca (ostracon in the singular) to vote for people they wanted to exile. Themistocles was a famous general who got exiled and we actually having surviving ostraca with his name on them.
The normal way to phrase that is "are you hiring?" :)
Yes but what do you mean by that?
Isn't that the norm already in US? I am from Europe and I have 3 living space rooms with windows taking two outer walls and inside there is bathroom and storage area with no windows?

Your bathrooms and storage spaces in apartments have windows?
I can't think about QBasic without thinking about that game with primates throwing bananas across a city at each other. Like a simpler version of Scorched Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)

also Money, and REMLINE
Have you ever been to a crowded area and it just crashes.....
Op is correct though. A CEO of a major US company who makes 1000x the wage of a factory owner in Shanghai who makes 100x the wage on the back of illegal migrant labor (very common) who is working to send money home to support their parents in the rural city they were born.

Just a few decades ago, that CEO would have paid his fellow countryman a modest salary and would have also made less themselves.

When you just imagine the staggering gap we've created, it feels deeply unfair. And it's not just a matter of starting a business. It is a structural moral failing.
I said as much in response to another (rightly) dead post:

Human shield tactics are basically as old as permanent settlements, because forcing your enemy past their own ethical limits has always been a tactic of occasional effectiveness. Its basically how insurgencies work against technologically and numerically superior opponents, and this has been true for millennia.

And for just as long, there have been military and political leaders describing it as cowardly or unsporting. But again, the state of the art of military tactics is a catalog of what works, not what's ethical. The practice of war itself is, by and large, unethical. If it didn't work, they wouldn't keep doing it. Speaking entirely for myself, I don't ever want to be in the mental state to say "its ok for the SWAT team to shoot through the hostages; its their fault for going to a bank that could be robbed in the first place".

Absolutely, the party that provoked the war in the first place is in the wrong for the attack that provoked it. But that doesn't give the side prosecuting the war carte blanche to respond as brutally as they please.
MacBook Air starts at 1,199 euro. For insane battery life, amazing performance, great screen and one of the lightest chassis. Find me comparable laptop, I’ll wait.
I have the CLI installed and use it quite often for managing containers and as a replacement for docker-compose. Can anyone comment on whether docker is better? I’ve never had any issues with podman and use it since it’s installed by default but curious why more people use docker.
He needs some refreshing, because his reviews have become utterly boring nowadays.
> periodontal disease is a direct cause of both diabetes and heart disease.

I thought that diabetes was glucose processing dysfunction?
I watch a fair few Youtube Video Essays and one thing I notice is that there is quite a discontent with AI. Unfortunately there is a lot of preaching to the choir and not enough making a case. Nevertheless that discontent itself is a signal, and I think this article touches on why.

People are quite disillusioned. There is growing wealth inequality, political division, Dark patterns (which should simply be called abusive software). We now have a generation that does not expect to ever own a home.

You often hear the term now "Late Stage Capitalism" Which while admittedly was a clever term of speech when it was originated, has become a lazy expression of nihilism. It evokes the idea of capitalism as a cancer at a stage where the symptoms are obvious and debilitating, but also that it is at a point of no return and that it will kill itself and its host and there is nothing that can be done.

I rarely hear a detailed complaint about the problems of AI without the phrase "Late Stage Capitalism" cropping up. The irony is, of course, that the devices, platforms, and information used to express these ideas were in a large part due to innovations that were enabled by a capitalist economy. I think without the anger and frustration of their current situation, many of those railing against capitalism would admit that what they would like is a well regulated socialist/capitalist system. Something that works for society but affords people the means to innovate.

The problem for AI is that people fear that the empowering capabilities will go to the already powerful. As with wealth inequality, the expectation is that the power distribution of AI will also be unequal.

There are numerous other complaints about various aspects of AI, but I feel like these are things that should be argued individually but are often too heavily influenced by the issues above.
This is a rediculous assertion.

To begin, you know nothing of the circumstances of millions of people. Certainly not enough to make sweeping statements.

In 2023, there were 5.5 MILLION new businesses started in the USA. Do those people all have generational wealth? of course not.

The reality is it’s easy to start a business but very hard to succeed.
The core of it is that speakers are bad at polyphony

You can look at intermodulation measurements for some popular and affordable home speakers here. The TL;DR is yeah, you're going to go from something like -60dB distortion to -40dB when doing synthetic multitone tests, but I would not remotely characterize this as being "bad" at polyphony nor the primary reason for the Wall of Sounds primordial "one vertical speaker array per instrument" design.

https://www.erinsaudiocorner.com/loudspeakers/kef_r5_meta/

https://www.erinsaudiocorner.com/loudspeakers/sony_sscs3_tow...

more: https://www.erinsaudiocorner.com/loudspeakers/

The way to avoid it is more speakers, more stacks/arrays/etc.

If we're talking about his remarks here I'd characterize his take as "more vertical arrays" and not just "more speakers." I realize it's a bit pedantic of me, but some people think that simply adding more speakers equals more betterer sound and it's quite far from the case. In general, multiple loudspeakers arrayed horizontally (this includes MTM center channels in home theater setups) lead to comb filtering.

I'm sure you know that, just clarifying for others.

If he has written about this elsewhere I'd love to read more!
Buy an ultrasonic cleaner off the shelf and just decant the grounds out of the coffee when you are done
Not everyone has to use everything.

In my 13 years there are a lot of technologies I've never used. Maybe there was opportunities where you could have, or maybe things are working just fine for the problems you're solving and you don't need it, which is fine too.
It’s a pretty standard pattern in right wing politics. Defund a thing, it becomes less efficient, politicians claim the thing they broke is better handled by the private sector, defunding continues. We have seen this with pretty much every public good since the Reagan/Thatcher era. The nice things we had in the West have been gutted and sold off for parts.

It should tell you something that these “concerned parents” never pressured Amazon to stop selling the books they complain about. It was never about the books.
Spirit or letter? Is it fair to assume you agree killing other human beings is still bad? Is there an alternative system you prefer?
Roadbed settling and concrete curing are two long term inactive construction projects.

Practical Engineering videos on road construction and public works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIK6I6Q58Ec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22W5tRWbUVI